Is there a tutorial on using the little buttons that appear above the text-entry window? Most are obvious, but how does one use [list], [list=], [code], [*], [img], [url], [video] ?It would also be nice to have...An explanation of what the circles mean on the left side of the index pagesand an explanation of the difference between "view new posts" and "view current topics"...

Profile Picture: "The Foaming Monk"The Chinese characters are Fo (buddha) and Ming (bright). The image is of a student of Buddhism, who, imagining himself to be a monk, and not understanding the true meaning of the words takes the sound of the words literally. Likewise, People on web forums sometime seem to be foaming at the mouth. Original painting by P.Volker /used by permission.

There must have been kind of invisibility-magic. Maybe there was much traffic, when your posts appeared and we did not find them under the load of hot topics.

Also, some simple instructions on how resize a photo and post video. Despite web searches I've never figured the latter out.

I do minimize my photos by uploading them to a photopage: http://picr.deThere you can choose the size before loading. But there are other technical possibilities that I never understood. Maybe other skilled users would like to share their knowledge.

Hi, Punya (and Ayu )The nearest thing to a 'user tutorial' at the moment is the FAQ's page http://dharmawheel.net/faq.php accessed via the link near the sign-in link (bottom right of page header).

As for resizing images, I'm pretty sure you can't do it within the forum's upload process. I always do it on my own computer before uploading them, using Preview (Apple's equivalent of Picture Viewer but better) or Picasa (free software for all operating systems - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa). There are lots of other image editing programmes out there, many of them free. There are also online apps which will do it for you. I've never used Photobucket (http://photobucket.com) but I have often seen it recommended. I do use Flickr, primarily to share photos with others but it does automatically resize photos that are uploaded to it and you can share the smaller versions as easily as the original size.

Video? I have never tried except to share stuff which is already online, mostly YouTube. It is then just a matter of posting a link, between either [url][/url] or [video][/video] tags. I think the size limits on uploaded attachments would stop you uploading video from your own computer but it might just work if you had a very short, low-resolution clip.

Hope this helps,Kim

P.S. I think Flickr allows the uploading and sharing of video as well as single images. If so, that could be the easiest solution to sharing your own video.

I tried to upload a video-file of 77 seconds. The system says it is too large.So the best way to upload own videos is to outsoure them to youtube or other videosites. Then you can just put in the link in here between the function [*video*][*/video*]

I find the best way to learn how to use BBCode in Dharma Wheel posts is to see how other members are using it. The BBCode can be viewed by clicking the Quote button as if you were going to reply to a post.